Long-time readers of this blog will remember the series of posts about the famous plane and the conveyor belt question (2, 3, 4). Well, as promised, the Mythbusters :
If a plane is traveling at takeoff speed on a conveyor belt, and that conveyor belt is matching the speed in reverse, can the plane take off? "We put the plane on a quarter-mile conveyor belt and tested it out,'" says Savage about the experiment using a pilot and his Ultralight plane. "I won't tell you what the outcome was, but the pilot and his entire flight club got it wrong.''
I can't wait to see the plane take flight.